The 36th annual Gold Coast Schools Science Competition aims to raise the profile of STEM in the community and encourage students to demonstrate their STEM abilities by entering a project into one of five categories.
We are very excited to share this hot off the press, good news story with our community. The award presentation of the Griffith University Gold Coast Science Competition was held last night, with QAHS declared the Best Overall Senior School.
The individual achievement of the students awarded is in the table below:
2nd Scientific Investigations
| Nitara Nirthanan
| Cytotoxicity of snake venom on prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
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3rd Scientific Investigations
| Victoria Qin | Investigating the effect of pH on adsorption capacity of Litchi chinensis cortex
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3rd Communicating Science
| Harima Ali | Evolution of Sickle Cell Trait |
1st Communicating Science
| Aimee Caldwell
| Genetically Engineering Coral for Conservation |
3rd Communicating Science
| Sophia Robinson | Beaver Dam |
2nd Communicating Science
| Aimi Otabe- Azzato | Fungi in Forest Ecosystems: Comparing Mycorrhizal Associations in Different Forest Biomes
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1st Engineering/Tec Projects
| Lachlan Campbell | Axle Joints |
2nd Engineering/Tec Projects
| Yanyan Zhang | Barbie and Ken's dream car - seatbelt simulation |
3rd Engineering/Tec Projects
| Aadi Rai | Eddy currents |
3rd Engineering/Tec Projects
| Orion Rafalovitch | Conservation of momentum to a linear plane
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Thank you to all these hard-working students, science teachers, lab staff, IT and administration staff who have assisted us in maintaining our position as the best senior school on the Gold Coast.
Anir Lal
HOD Science